Clothes-hook.



S. A. BR0GKWAY. 01.0mm HOOK.

, urmcm'mn FILED my 2, 1906. 4 923,941. Patented June 8, 1909,

r INVENTOR.

I Allarhey SCOTT A. BROOKWAY, OF FORDYCE, NEBRASKA.

CLOTHES-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1909.

Application filed May 2, 1908. Serial No. 430,568.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SooTT A. BROCKWAY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fordyce, in the county of Cedar and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hooks used in hanging clothes, and has for its object the improvement of hooks now in common use by mounting the depending portionof the ordinary coat and hat hook so as to swing on the upper or hat hook, so that the depending portion may be swung over and hang substantially parallel to the hat hook and the clothes hook when in said position, being adapted to be secured under a shelf or other horizontal support and act as a depending hook.

My invention will be described in detail hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of the preferred form of my improved hook in position for use as a combined hat and coat hook; Fig. 2, a similar view, showing it in position for a depending hook; Fig. 3, a front view of the hook shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a front view of a modified form of hook.

In the drawings similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, 1 indicates the stationary hook, which is shown formed of the same strand of wire as the threaded portion 2, which is used to secure the hook in place, though other means may be employed to the exclusion of the threaded end or in conjunction therewith, if desired. Secured to the shank 3 of the stationary hook 1 is a plate 4, having eye-loops 5 thereon, in which is journaled a wire 6, having its two ends bent, as shown at 7, and formed with hooks 8. 10 indicates shoulders on the ends of plate 4.

In the modification shown in Fig. '4, the stationary hook is indicated at 1*, with the late 4 secured to its shank and having eyeoops 5 thereon. The revoluble or swinging hook consists of a piece of wire 6*, bent in its middle, as shown at 7*, to form a hook 8 and its ends 9 bent inwardly to form journals inserted in said eye-loops 5. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the

threaded end of the shank of the hook 1 and the shoulders on the ends of the plate 4 do not appear, but it will be understood that these parts are the same as in the preferred form as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and illustration of them is unnecessary.

When the hook is to be used for a combined hat and coat hook, the hooks 8 or 8 are swung so as to hang below the stationary hook 1 or 1*, and the threaded end is secured in an upright support, the shoulders on the ends of the plate 4 or 4 en aging the wire 6 or 6 adjacent to the journa ed portion to retain said hook 8 or 8 a in a depending position. l/Vhen the device is to be used as a depending hook, the pivoted hooks 8 or 8" are swung or rotated in the eye-loops so that they are in the position shown in F igs. 2, 3, or 4, and the wire 6 or 6 adjacent to the eye-loops 5 or 5 engages the upper side of the plate 4 or 4 and the device is in position to be secured under a horizontal support, such as a shelf in a closet.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a clothes-hook, a stationary hook provided with means to secure it to a suitable support, a plate secured to said stationary hoo and having shoulders on its'ends, and a hook journaled on said plate and engaging the shoulders thereon when the stationary hook is secured to an upright support and the of the plate when secured to a horizonto tal support, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a clothes-hook, a stationary hook having a threaded end to secure it to a suitable support, a plate secured to said stationary hook having eye-loops and shoulders on its ends, and a hook journaled in said eyeloops, said journaled hook engaging the shoulders when the stationary hook is secured to an upright support and the top of the plate when secured to a horizontal support, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a clothes-hook, a stationary hook, a plate secured to said stationary hook having eye-loops thereon and shoulders adjacent to said eye-loops, and a length of wire j ournaled in said eyeloops and having its ends formed with hooks, said length of wire being adapted to rotatein said eye-loops so that when in one position the hooks depend from the stationary hook and the portion of the Wire ad- I In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my jaoent t0 the journaled portion engages the hand in presence of two subscribing witshoulders aforesaid and when in its other ponesses.

sition said length of wire is substantially par- SCOTT A. B ROCIUYA '1'. allel to the stationary hook and engages the 1 Witnesses: upper side of the plate aforesaid, substan- F. P. VOTER, tia 1y as shown and described. H. C. BEATY. 

